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te history a bit all of those people who fought in northrend alongside the argent crusade are the perfect group to stand up to the ongoing war between the factions saying that the fighting has to stop if the mortal races are going to save the world from deathwing posted by redbeard at 7 59 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cataclysm horde lore thursday september 9 2010 wooot first picture of warrior tier 11 concept art and best of all no pigs on the shoulders posted by deftig at 12 46 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 8 2010 loregasm this is a freaking loregasm out here that was how someone in gen chat described the chaos surrounding senjin village last night i haven t seen framerates that low since ruby sanctum opened and almost never in an area not called dalaran or orgrimmar i will freely admit that i avoided the high tinker s call on my alliance alts but that s not due to any horde bias my head hurt after watching framerates in the upper single digits while i was playing as neve and i didn t want to deal with that again now for few short comments about the vol jin s call to arms i loved the opening letter it was well written and spiced with a lot of true troll flavor you got the sense of we re tired of being shoved out of the way and we re not going to expletive deleted take it any more from zalazane and his dark magic if i ve the bank space i m going to keep that sucker around for a while i thought it interesting that we got to ride bats when tossing the frog spies onto the markers in the echo islands and it was all done without a forsaken npc in sight the sight of riding into senjin at the head of a group of troll recruits on raptors was really cool don t mess with the voodoo mon the integration of the hidden troll druids into the lore was well done since the trolls were finally going to take back the echo isles and defeat zalazane they felt they could finally come out in the open and join vol jin there was a lot of annoyance that only l78 and up could finish the quest chain and i can t say i blame people for that here s the vital part of lore being added to but a chunk of the wow populace would be unable to participate when i run the quest chain as q and on the alliance alts i ll write those up but for now this has me pumped we had the teaser with the tauren speaking of the power of the sun in thunder bluff and the highborne showing up in the temple of the moon and now there s this as an appetizer i can t wait until the next changes happen eta apparently the take back the echo islands event is broken environment wide so i haven t missed anything by not having q run through the quest chain yet eta it s fixed posted by redbeard at 12 36 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels cataclysm horde lore friday september 3 2010 finding a place to call home so what is it about warcraft that feels right for any individual player is it a faction maybe it s your chose faction or perhaps you feel most at home playing a certain class or role i m sure it s a combination of all of the above what about a literal place you call home in game one of the main differences between the alliance and horde main cities is the fact that there s housing of all of my time playing as horde and spending so much time being bored in orgrimmar the only place i could really call home is the bank roof or perhaps the rock next to the palm trees and mailbox outside the bank the alliance cities however seem to have an abundance of housing albeit most of the doors in stormwind are shut and i spent some time riding around the main cities recently looking for a spot that would feel the most homely for my character i d like to first introduce you to my main character deftig the proud dwarf warrior rawr fierce ain t he i found a spot that i think suits my character quite well firstly it s in ironforge and he s a dwarf it just fits additionally i seem to prefer ironforge to any of the other alliance main cities i m not sure why perhaps it s because i worked in an iron foundry for a while myself or the fact that it s centrally located and most importantly you don t have to take any fall damage when you port there and run out of the portal chamber as opposed to stormwind jumping off the mage tower or falling down the side of the city in org i don t know what that bothers me but it does the spot i ve picked is in the military ward part of the city and it s right between craghelm s plate and chain and timberline arms can t pick a nicer spot that that riiiiiiight here so with out any further ado come on in main room properly decorated click to read text i made it a bit small upstairs yep this house has it all good location perfect decorations great neighbors and it s quiet most of the time so what spot is home for you i m looking forward to seeing some replies and hopefully some blog posts detailing your own homes in game and the reasons why posted by deftig at 11 58 pm 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest paladin sends mage alt into shadowfang keep film at eleven so what are you looking at can t a guy send an alt into a 5 man without commentary sometimes you just want to stop playing your main for a little while oh right most of my alts are paladins too well i was up way late last night with sleep nowhere in sight so i got on wow instead of clicking straight through to quintalan when i selected the area 52 server i paused my mage was staring back at me with her blood elf snarky attitude daring me to pick her instead why not and why not actually try her on an instance at l26 she s ready to go and i think i know enough about instances to handle ranged dps just keep yer threat down willya a place like shadowfang which is a straight shot without lots of trash coming at you from behind seemed the perfect first instance well that and that it s fairly short and at l26 neve is right at the maximum level for the dungeon i queued her up and proceeded to wait about 1 2 hour for a group to assemble in that copious time i conjured up about 100 food and 100 water ready for when people needed it cruised through the barrens and mulgore working on the exploration achievements for each after months of riding the thalassian mount and charger a hawkstrider just doesn t look right neither would a raptor for that matter a worg now that d be interesting practiced on sacrificial raptors in the barrens it had been months since i d done anything with her other than level tailoring and enchanting and i needed to get back into the swing of it danced with the flight master in camp taurajo hey if you re gonna go go out with a bang right when the lfd tool finally assembled a group and we ported in the instance was very nearly over before it began i started buffing people with int and asked if anyone needed food do i look like a mexican the warrior dps snapped i m still not exactly sure how but i resisted my almost immediate urge to drop group or smack him for that crack you look like an orc to me i finally responded i made a mental note of the timer left on vote kick because i wasn t screwing around with this guy at last the warrior tank moved forward and we got going he pulled the first group of trash and i mentally counted out the time where i felt comfortable with his aggro lock ran forward and holy crap what the hell am i thinking i immediately burst frost nova and skittered back to the edge of the group where i remained every chance i got i found a corner to cast from watching my threat the entire time because i d never run neve through an instance before i was pleasantly surprised when healbot came in handy for her you d not expect a healing add on to give any extra boost to a decidedly non healer but when you right click on a member of your group on the healbot bar it s the same as using a macro to assist whatever they re attacking very handy indeed and saves me a key binding decursive saves me another slot because remove curse is used very heavily in shadowfang keep for the most part i managed threat well in fact the only time i pulled threat was when the tank died and being the one dishing out the most damage i was the one that the mob aggroed on scratch one squishy mage the rest of the group finished off the mob so it wasn t a total wipe and the tree was nice enough to raise me once the fight was over not that i can t run back in shadowfang but let s face it a mage is armored with glorified tissue paper and wandering mobs are not soloable by a mage the fight with arugal however was a bit of a problem the tank left him on his spot at the top of the steps and i couldn t get a good line of sight to cast at him without getting far too close for comfort looking around for somewhere anywhere to go i saw the top of the steps that you entered with i ran over and up the steps and i was in range for casting that was very considerate of blizz to set that up for ranged dps that way my only regret the mouthy dps dropped before the kick timer expired he was earning a vote kick throughout the instance but i never got the chance to initiate one because he dropped after the the tank death incident so what did i think of something decidedly non paladin not bad at all once i got over my initial urge to go in there and mix it up in melee i learned the joys of staying to the rear and keeping an eye over your shoulder you have to manage blizzard even if it is off cooldown because of the mana bite it takes you also have to stock up on mana potions because you might just end up with a tank that won t listen to anyone and will just keep pulling i do have big issues with being so squishy but i guess that s something i ll have to live with at least i won t feel guilty when i see her in the startup screen the allergy medicine i was taking left me wired to the point where i couldn t sit still and read not fun posted by redbeard at 9 44 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alts pugs the wow life thursday september 2 2010 don t forget your swiss army knife in this era of role silos i ve found that i like playing the jack of all trades this isn t exactly a revelation to anyone who has read our blog the past year or so but i ve found that leveling new paladins on the alliance side has reinforced that attitude i m the guy who actually likes handling the stairs on drak tharon i can heal myself use righteous fury and consecration to draw aggro and do enough damage by myself to keep the scourge from causing issues with the crew down below before phase 2 of the fight healer getting overwhelmed with debuffs or damage in a scrum i can step in and plug the gaps as needed tank losing aggro to the ranged dps a quick hand of salvation or a pull using righteous defense will drag that trash back into threat range and a bubble will drop the threat right off of me enabling the tank to reestablish control garfrost s stacking debuff hitting everyone hard frost aura will take a bite out of it those ymirheim flamebringers blasting everyone with aoe over in the pit of saron interrupts fire aura and holy wrath will stop that the bag of tricks that a paladin has is an eerie echo of my own personal set of tools for work i might not be the most knowledgeable person at my job but i ve got a wide set of homegrown tools that will assist me in whatever is thrown my way by comparison every pally has the ability to heal tank and dps right out of the box but it s the application of those various little abilities that let a paladin really shine when was the last time you saw a ret pally switch out of ret or protection aura to help mitigate damage there are plenty of opportunities to do that in places such as razorfen downs the old kingdom the scarlet monastery halls of lightning and pit of saron but why doesn t it happen because the theorycrafters say that s not optimal dps why don t ret pallys help out more with an occasional debuff removal because they re in their own silo believe me having run as a healer if someone wants to assist with the occasional cleanse go for it don t overdo things because it s not your primary role but if you want to help out a zap or two of cleanse in the middle of your rotation makes my job easier and lets me concentrate on the tank more as an example i was in razorfen downs with tomakan last week tom s reached that point where his holy spec gear isn t being replaced fast enough so he has mana issues rather than burden a group with tom being underpowered i queued him up as dps and switched to the 2h heirloom axe however it was obvious that the healer and tank were struggling with the ranged dps pulling aggro so i pitched in with some debuff clearing and an occasional hos or righteous defense to help out after about 10 minutes the healer finally spoke up tom he asked are you cleaning debuffs yeah i said i m guilty i wasn t going to say anything about it though oh that s fine i m having lag problems so by the time i see it pop up it s already gone the next instance that night was scarlet monastery and i was doing the same routine clean debuffs when i can work it in and help with crowd control without stepping on the tank s toes about halfway through the instance the priest healer piped up i don t believe it what the tank also a paladin asked paladins who clean their own debuffs not one but two of you that never happens you know maybe it should happen a little more often working as a team means acting as a team not just confining your actions to a specific set of keyboard strokes posted by redbeard at 11 36 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels paladins pugs roles newer posts older posts home subscribe to comments atom pages home about parallel context about redbeard contact us azeroth after dark a parallel 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